Enterprise Solution Architect (Remote)

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization’s targeted business outcomes
• Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements
• Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or initiative
• Provide consulting support to application architects within projects to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements
• Analyze the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).
• Analyze the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision.
• Assist in the development of a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture)
• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations
• Consult with application and infrastructure development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture
• Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture
• Document all solution architecture design and analysis work
• Work closely with the project management office (PMO) to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised
• Adheres to and complies with applicable, federal and state laws, regulations and guidance, including those related to anti-money laundering (i.e. Bank Secrecy Act, US PATRIOT Act, etc.).
• Adheres to Bank policies and procedures and completes required training.
• Identifies and reports suspicious activity.

College degree or equivalent management/work experience (At least 10 years), which includes practical experience in Information Technology and IT Security Minimum 4 years’ experience with cloud-based enterprise infrastructure architecture and/or operations required, * 5+ years experience - in at least three of the following disciplines: technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations

• Prior experience working in SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud operating models
• Experience with SCRUM and preferably SAFe frameworks
• Experience with the following architectures and patterns:
• REST APIs, SOAP, Pub-Sub messaging
• Data ingestion and integration
• Microservices & containers
• Cloud native application architecture and design preferably on Amazon AWS
• AI/ML concepts and familiarity with Gen AI technologies
• Relational and NoSQL databases
• OLAP and OLTP capabilities and workload planning
• Single page application architecture and design
• Integration with Commercial Off The Shelf applications
• Experience in defining and maintaining Solution Architectures with using tools like BizzDesign, Sparx EA, orbus, or Archi
• Experience with UML, BPMN, or preferably Archimate modeling notations
• Familiar with banking trends like Open Banking, Embedded Finance, Bank As a Service(BaaS)
• Experience in designing and implementing HA architectures

Licenses and Certifications ISC2’s CISSP, ISACA’s CISA, The Open Group’s TOGAF, SANS’ GAIC, ISACA’s CISM preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models
• Familiar with banking trends like Open Banking, Embedded Finance, Bank As a Service(BaaS)
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Understanding of agile methods and processes, and capability of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, ability to influence and persuade peers
• Excellent planning, organizational skills and leadership skills
• Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture
• Ability to understand the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives of situations
• Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
• Self-motivated with good business and technology acumen
• Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives
• Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Self-motivated
• Strong customer service skills